A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville,who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and t

Prosterman shows that the criteria for a good cow, a beautiful quilt, and an excellent squash remain the same at a structural level: straight lines, harmonious

The contributors to this volume explore the modern urban festival and the difference it makes to the experience and management of diversity in a city. Their res

'Woodstock 1969, the First Festival' looks back on the event when nearly 500,000 revellers came together for three days and three nights and showed the world wh

The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her gener